{"id":4300,"date":"2019-02-05T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:43","slug":"centre-and-bjp-claim-sc-directive-on-rajeev-kumar-a-moral-victory-for-cbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/centre-and-bjp-claim-sc-directive-on-rajeev-kumar-a-moral-victory-for-cbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre and BJP claim SC directive on Rajeev Kumar a moral victory for CBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has called the Supreme Court directive on Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam a \u201cmoral victory\u201d for the CBI. Mamata Banerjee too has welcomed the verdict and called it a \u201cmoral victory\u201d for her.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court today told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that Kumar cannot be arrested. Kumar had earlier requested the CBI to decide on a \u201cneutral\u201d place \u2013 neither Kolkata nor Delhi \u2013 where the two sides could meet and \u201cdiscuss\u201d the investigation of the Saradha chit fund scam. He has written several times to the CBI on this issue. The apex court today accepted this, and it has been decided that such a meeting will take place in Shillong. The court has asked Kumar to appear before the CBI before February 20.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that the apex court order was \u201cmoral victory for the CBI\u201d, Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad added that the Opposition should not attempt to \u201cpoliticise\u201d the issue. Calling it a \u201cmoral obligation\u201d to carry the investigation forward, the law minister welcomed the apex court verdict.<\/p>\n<p>BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra \u00a0meanwhile also reacted calling the SC notice a \u2018huge loss of face\u2019 for the Mamata government in West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has called the Supreme Court directive on Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}